Insufficient Disk Space (T-SQL Tuesday #88)
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday – hosted by Kennie T Pontoppidan(@KennieNP) – is called “The daily (database-related) WTF“. He asked us to be...
2017-03-27 (first published: 2017-03-14)
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Data Savvy
Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 2
I showed in my previous post how we generated the datasets for our Azure Data Factory pipelines. In this post, I’ll...
2017-03-21 (first published: 2017-03-10)
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Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 1
Apologies for the overly acronym-laden title as I was trying to keep it concise but descriptive. And we all know...
2017-03-03
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Please Lend Me Your Vote for Documentation of TMSCHEMA DMVs
I spent a good bit of time looking for the definitions/descriptions of the TMSCHEMA DMVs that allow us to view...
2016-11-07
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Process Compatibility Level 1200 SSAS Tabular Model from SSIS 2014
A client wanted to upgrade their SSAS model to SSAS 2016 to take advantage of some of the features of...
2016-10-21 (first published: 2016-10-14)
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Documenting your Tabular or Power BI Model
If you were used to documenting your SSAS model using the MDSchema rowsets, you might have noticed that some of them...
2016-10-05
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BYO Time Zone Conversion With SSAS DMVs
This is just a quick note (since I apparently forgot and was puzzled for a moment) that the MDSCHEMA_CUBES DMV...
2016-09-21
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DAX Date Dimension and Fun with Date Math
I was working on a SSAS Tabular 2016 solution for a project for which I had no data (an empty...
2016-09-03
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Create a Date Dimension in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Most data warehouses and data marts require a date dimension or calendar table. Those of us that have been building...
2016-08-11 (first published: 2016-08-06)
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PolyBase Is A Picky Eater – Remove Carriage Returns Before Ingesting Text
Update: As Gerhard points out in the comments, switching to ORC files solves this issue nicely. It’s not human readable,...
2016-08-09 (first published: 2016-08-01)
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Blogs
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
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